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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /va?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s
• Homophone: vise

Etymology 1

From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþ?aw.

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. A bad habit.

2. (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
3. A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
   • 1839, From the case of Scholefield v. Robb Gilligan, Brenda (2002) Practical Horse Law?^[1], ?ISBN: “So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind.”

Antonyms

• (bad habit): virtue

Derived terms

• by vice of
• inherent vice
• vice squad

Related terms

Translations

See also

• habit

Etymology 2

See vise.

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”)
2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
3. (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
4. (obsolete) A grip or grasp.

Translations

Verb

vice (third-person singular simple present vices, present participle vicing, simple past and past participle viced)

1. Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”)

Etymology 3

From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

Adjective

vice (not comparable)

1. in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank

Derived terms

Preposition

vice

1. (dated) instead of, in place of, versus (sense 2)

Usage notes

• While rare in modern standard English, this usage still appears among members of the United States military.
• Statements such as "vice Jones, who had resigned" may be abbreviated "vice Jones, resigned"

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. One who acts in place of a superior.
   • c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion

     The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]

Further reading

• vice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ICEV, cive

Esperanto

Adverb

vice

1. in rows

Related terms

• vico

French

Etymology

From Middle French vice, from Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vis/
• Homophones: vis, visse, vissent, visses
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

vice m (plural vices)

1. vice (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

See also

• défaut
• péché

Further reading

• “vice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English vice-, French vice-, German vize-, Italian vice-, Russian ?????- (více-), Spanish vice-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.t?se/

Preposition

vice

1. instead, instead of

Derived terms

References

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
• Progreso IV (in Ido), 1911–1912, pages 211, 408, 409
• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 723
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vicem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.t??e/
• Rhymes: -it?e

Noun

vice m or f (invariable)

1. deputy, substitute, vice

Related terms

• vicepresidente
• vice-

Anagrams

• veci

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.ke/, [?u??k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.t??e/, [?vi?t???]

Noun

vice

1. ablative singular of vicis

Preposition

vice

1. in place of, subordinate to

Derived terms

• vice vers?

Descendants

• English: vice-
• French: vice
• Ido: vice
• Italian: vice
• Piedmontese: vice
• Swedish: vice

Etymology 2

Noun

v?ce

1. vocative singular of v?cus

References

• vice in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vice in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Alternative forms

• vyce, vyse, vijs, wise, vise, wyce, vyhs

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French vice, visse, from Latin vitium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?s(?)/

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. A fault or imperfection; a negative quality or attribute of something:
   1. A bad habit or tendency that one has; a negative human behaviour.
   2. A mistake; a fault due to deficience in knowledge or reasoning.
   3. (rare) An imperfection or blemish in one's visage or look.
2. Vice, iniquity, sinful behaviour; absence of virtue or morality:
   1. A vice; a general tendency or action that is morally bad.
   2. A specific example of immoral or sinful behaviour.
3. A sickness, disease or malady; a deleterious process effecting something.

Related terms

• viciate
• vicious
• viciously
• viciousnesse

Descendants

• English: vice
• Scots: vice

References

• “v?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.

Noun

vice m (plural vices)

1. vice (bad habit)

Descendants

• French: vice

Portuguese

Noun

vice m, f (plural vices)

1. used as an abbreviation of any word containing the prefix vice-

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ì?t?s?/, /?í?t?s?/

Noun

v?ce f pl

1. purgatory

Inflection

Spanish

Noun

vice m or f (plural vice)

1. vice (second in command)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

vice (not comparable)

1. vice, second in rank, deputy, stand-in, acting

Related terms

• vicedirektör
• vicekonung
• vicepresident
• vicevärd
• vice versa

English

Etymology

fasten +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæs?n?/, /?fæsn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??s?n?/, /?f??sn?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?f??s?n?/, /?f??sn?/
• Hyphenation: fast?en?er, faste?ner

Noun

fastener (plural fasteners)

1. Something or someone that fastens.
2. Mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers, clasps, bolts and the like.

   Synonym: clasp

Derived terms

• pop fastener
• snap fastener
• zip fastener

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (fasun?)

Translations

Further reading

• fastener on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Feenstra, fenestra, refasten